Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac?

#71

Post by buffaloo » Fri, Apr 19, 2019, 1:30 PM UTC

If the concern is ransom-ware, what works well?

Re: Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac?

#72

Post by cawwot » Fri, Apr 19, 2019, 4:39 PM UTC

captainredbeard wrote: post #11

If you're paranoid: - Full Disk Encryption - Use Little Snitch - Don't use iCloud - Disable SSH except for your account - Turn off remote login - Run developer software in Docker containers

Quick question; what's the point of running development software in docker from a security perspective?

Re: Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac?

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Post by cjcampbell » Fri, Apr 19, 2019, 11:34 PM UTC

cerberusss wrote: post #23

icedchai wrote: post #9

Full disk encryption, that's it. When I get up, I lock the screen.

To add to this: the shortcut key for locking the screen is Cmd+Ctrl+Q. There's also the possibility of configuring a Hot Corner for this.

Thanks for posting this. I have been missing the Cmd-Shift-Power ever since getting a TouchBar.

Re: Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac?

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Post by dippersauce » Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 5:04 AM UTC

For me the most important aspect is the use of a VPN, security software, and the combination of multiple layers of authentication. These are of course just general good practices, but how you implement them is what's unique compared to Windows or Linux. A full list would be too long for an HN comment, but a few months ago I put together something of a reference guide listing the methods I apply to secure Macs in a roughly organized fashion. It's brief in most aspects, but but hopefully it can be of use to someone. It's licensed under Creative Commons, so feel free to redistribute it. I've uploaded it to iTunes[1], but if Freedom is a concern I can email[3] a PDF of it directly.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/kickstart-security-macos-mo...

[2] contact@austinlasota.com

Re: Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac?

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Post by cerberusss » Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 5:58 AM UTC

cjcampbell wrote: post #73

cerberusss wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add to this: the shortcut key for locking the screen is Cmd+Ctrl+Q. There's also the possibility of configuring a Hot Corner for this.

Thanks for posting this. I have been missing the Cmd-Shift-Power ever since getting a TouchBar.

Yeah I'm very happy with that shortcut :) others mentioned a shortcut with Ctrl-Shift-Escape, to force it to sleep. But doesn't seem to work in my case (I'm often using my MacBook in clamshell mode).